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Right now I feel like George, after round one, in desperate need of an Ona.
In short -- I'm not coming back to Brown, for incredibly stupid reasons mainly instigated by a Dean who lied to me about my situation, and has been deeply caustic and unhelpful throughout the course of a year. This frustrates me enormously but there's nothing I can do about it and I have decided to move on with my life.
So, in short, I'm looking for a University or College where I can do my studying thing next year. I have a few in mind, but I thought I would take recommendations from anyone who happens to be reading this.
Necessary:
Has a decent physics program, with a sophmore or junior level lab course that covers modern physics (the fundamental experiements of Quantum Mechanics, ideally) and also (ideally) has a lecture component. This is an absolute must.
Has decent Chinese, including classical and other post-third-year classes.
A reasonably liberal "open-university" policy (allows interested, non-enrolled students to take classes for non-matriculating credit.)
Not Brown University, for whatever reason.
Bonuses:
Good "geek" scene, especially role-playing games, but also science fiction, fantasy, and animation.
Japanese or Korean classes.
A renowned East Asian Studies department, or at least one with friendly, intelligent professors.
A Chinese-speaking community, at least enough that I can find people to practice conversation with.
Friends.
On West or East coast of US.
Anyone know of any possible candidates?
In short -- I'm not coming back to Brown, for incredibly stupid reasons mainly instigated by a Dean who lied to me about my situation, and has been deeply caustic and unhelpful throughout the course of a year. This frustrates me enormously but there's nothing I can do about it and I have decided to move on with my life.
So, in short, I'm looking for a University or College where I can do my studying thing next year. I have a few in mind, but I thought I would take recommendations from anyone who happens to be reading this.
Necessary:
Has a decent physics program, with a sophmore or junior level lab course that covers modern physics (the fundamental experiements of Quantum Mechanics, ideally) and also (ideally) has a lecture component. This is an absolute must.
Has decent Chinese, including classical and other post-third-year classes.
A reasonably liberal "open-university" policy (allows interested, non-enrolled students to take classes for non-matriculating credit.)
Not Brown University, for whatever reason.
Bonuses:
Good "geek" scene, especially role-playing games, but also science fiction, fantasy, and animation.
Japanese or Korean classes.
A renowned East Asian Studies department, or at least one with friendly, intelligent professors.
A Chinese-speaking community, at least enough that I can find people to practice conversation with.
Friends.
On West or East coast of US.
Anyone know of any possible candidates?
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Ah, how profoundly moving to know that the alma mater still holds fast her timeless traditions against the raging torrent of this changing world...
Anyone know of any possible candidates?
Despite being in the middle of flyover country, and a physics department that sucks ass, Earlham College (http://www.earlham.edu/) has a renowned East Asian studies department and one of the best Japanese programs in the non-Nipponophilic world, and is chock full of Friends.
But perhaps that's not quite what you meant.
More seriously, if language is really your thing, you can't do any better than Penn (http://www.upenn.edu/). Not much ever gets said about their physics department, though.
On the other end of the spectrum is UCB (http://www.berkeley.edu/). There are lots of Chinese in Berkeley, anyway, though it's not clear that the University has any sort of noteworthy language instruction as a consequence.
And as a Californicator yourself, getting in shouldn't be too hard.
Plus I hear there's a top rate gaming scene out there. <grin>
Good luck with this. I would express regret at your total rejection by Brown, but frankly, I can't say I really see how you're on the losing side of that one.
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That amuses me. Earlham was my sister's backup/safety school.
Ben, I think a decent number of state universtities, like UMass or whatever, might have what you're looking for.
MW